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 Fickle Voters Are 
 Change Obama 
 Can Believe In 

We're ready to change politics, religion, relationships at the drop of a hat

Aug 4, 09 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Whether it’s religion, relationships, or politics, Americans are getting more fickle, experts say. Seniors citizens are more open to divorce, college students are more open to changing schools, and more than 40% of Americans will switch religions, notes one pollster. All this could be bad news for President Obama,... More »

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religion • relationship • change • opinion • Obama administration • President Obama • public opinion

(Newser) - Today’ non-decision by the Supreme Court on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is actually a stern repudiation, Tom Goldstein writes for SCOTUSblog. Reading between the lines, Goldstein surmises that the court will strike down Section 5 when the next challenge comes if Congress does not significantly alter it... More »

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Congress • legislation • Voting Rights Act • US Supreme Court • constitutionality • opinion • racial discrimination • Section 5

OPINION

 Don't Get 'Tagged' By This Site 

Social network spams contacts without permission

Jun 11, 09 2:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US’ third-largest social network is also the world’s most annoying website, Sean Gregory writes in Time. An e-mail about photos from an ex-boss lured him to Tagged, only to lead him through a confusing registration that spammed all his contacts with an informal note. “I don’t... More »

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social networking • Internet • email • spam • opinion • Tagged

OPINION Roundup

 Obama 'Shrewd' 
 in Cairo Speech 


Jun 4, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most of America wasn’t even awake when it happened, but Barack Obama’s Cairo speech got people talking anyway, the Washington Post reports. The New York Times says Obama delivered a "sweeping and forceful—at times scolding and combative" message, which included what the Wall ... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • Middle East • Egypt • Muslim • Cairo • speech • opinion

OPINION

The—Problem—With—Em—Dashes

Lionel Shriver laments the loss of the semicolon to its curt cousin

May 8, 09 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - A punctuation plague is raging through contemporary prose, indulged in by ordinarily excellent writers and hacks alike. It’s the “em dash,” writes Lionel Shriver for Standpoint—that punchy, aggressive punctuation mark beloved for its flexibility. It can replace the geriatric semicolon, linking two elements of a single... More »

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writing • journalism • style • punctuation • opinion

right OPINION roundup

 After 100 
 Days, Obama 
 Remains Elusive 

Depending who you ask, Obama is 'elusive,' 'arrogant,' or 'preening'

Apr 29, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whoever the man in the Oval Office really is, he's not a traditional liberal, writes Gerald Seib in the Wall Street Journal. Rather than aiming to bolster government programs, President  Obama "seems to see government as the way to prompt the changes he wants in the economy or society.... More »

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Barack Obama • Republican • conservative • opinion • Obama administration • President Obama • 100 days

Left Opinion Roundup

 First 100 
 Days Better 
 Than Great 


Apr 29, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s first 100 days have been momentous, to say the least. Here’s what his fans are saying:
  • Obama is intent on remaking American culture, ending not just the post-Reagan era but the entire “quick-fix, sugar-rush, attention-deficit society of the postmodern age,” writes Joe Klein
... More »

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Barack Obama • Liberal • opinion • Obama administration • President Obama • 100 days

OPINION

 I Hate Facebook; 
 You Should Too 




Mar 9, 09 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook is a soul-sucking enterprise that can steal away your dependable wife and connect you with people you'd rather avoid—or happily forget, Matt Labash writes in the Weekly Standard. Users of the “stultifying” and “mind-numbing” site have “a reality-show star's unquenchable thirst for broadcasting all... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • Weekly Standard • time • opinion • boring

OPINION Roundup

 Obama's Speech a 'Home Run' 

Right/left praise speech

Jan 20, 09 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The early reviews are in from Barack Obama’s inauguration address, and the news is positive. Here’s what the critics are saying:
  • At the National Review, Michael Knox Beran thought the speech was a “home run.” It predictably had “a few lines at which
... More »

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Barack Obama • speech • inauguration • opinion • President Obama • inaugural address

opinion

 Sorry, US: 
 Mumbai Is Not About You 

9/11 parallels neglect India's long fight with terrorism

Dec 3, 08 8:17 PM CST
(Newser) - US pundits have portrayed the Mumbai attacks as the 9/11 of India, a terrorist test of Barack Obama, and a deliberate attempt to go after US citizens abroad. "Sorry, it is not always about America," writes Indian native Isaac Cheriyathu in SpliceToday. Devastating, yes. But this was a... More »

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India • Mumbai • Islamist extremists • al-Qaeda • terrorist attack • opinion • 9/11 attacks

 US Election Captivates Iran 

Some Iranians pro-McCain, some pro-Obama, for strange and different reasons

Oct 25, 08 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Though isolated and remote, Iran is understandably interested in the outcome of the US presidential election. Iranian papers are covering every aspect, publishing extensive biographies and transcripts of the debates. Opinions run the gamut, but one consensus seems to be that it doesn't matter who wins because the US has... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Israel • John McCain • Election 2008 • Iranian politics • opinion

OPINION

 Why Her
 'Servant's
 Heart'
 Matters
 

Palin's speech demonstrated ordinary, old-time conservative values

Sep 6, 08 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has the “power of the normal,” and she has the Democrats rightfully running scared, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. The mother of 5 with her hockey-mom jokes and imperfect voice is "vividly genuine," a trait that helped her be the... More »

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Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • conservatives • opinion • Republican National Convention • acceptance speech

opinion

 Put Catcher to Rest Already 

Salinger standby should make way for newer books

Aug 28, 08 7:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye may have once been edgy, coming-of-age literature, but does it deserve a place in today's curricula? It's time to retire Holden Caulfield, argues Anne Trubek in Good magazine. "Salinger’s novel lacks the currency or shock value it once had,... More »

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education • fiction • literature • The Catcher in the Rye • JD Salinger • opinion

OPINION

 Little League's Foul Plays


Aug 26, 08 7:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just like their big-league heroes, Little League players compete each year in their own small-fry World Series. But Deadspin offers 10 reasons to cancel the big game:  
  1. Flat-brimmed caps: Learn to crease those caps boys.
  1. Giving up home runs to Canada: No self-respecting
... More »

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sports • list • Little League World Series • Deadspin • opinion

GLOSSIES

 Wagyu: 'the Hummer of Beef'

Esquire taste tests extravagant $130-per-pound meat

Aug 25, 08 7:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wagyu beef, a Japanese tradition catching on in the US, uses cows “bred so that fat corrupts the striations of every muscle,” Tom Junod writes in Esquire. After sampling some at $130 per pound, Junod ponders how Americans can be attracted to such excess. Despite America's ecological awakening,... More »

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Japan • beef • delicacy • slaughterhouse • Esquire • opinion • Wagyu beef

OPINION

 Must Globetrotting
 Aussies Be Grounded?

Wired blogger responds to Oz travel-bashing

Aug 20, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's even harder being green if you're Australian, since it takes a long-haul flight to get practically anywhere, Adele Horin observes in the Sydney Morning Herald. Aussies consider globetrotting to be part of their birthright, but Horin thinks it's time her country-mates recognize airplanes for what they are: "toxic... More »

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Australia • pollution • air travel • opinion • greenhouse-gas emissions • Wired

OPINION

 Analyst Rules
 Could Use
 Some Analysis

It might be time to ease some of the restrictions

Aug 12, 08 5:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Frank Quattrone is back in the investment business and is taking on research rules, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times. Quattrone thinks Wall Street should try to remove the settlement that forced the separation of investment banking and research. The rules are “denying small companies the... More »

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Wall Street • finance • Frank Quattrone • opinion • analyst • market research

OPINION

 Hookups Won't
 Ruin Her Life

Flings help today's young women
grow and learn

Aug 5, 08 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - New books are urging girls in the "hookup generation" to stay chaste, but Tracy Clark-Flory trumpets the virtues of casual sex in Salon. While abstinence authors rate women as whores or angels, the 24-year-old argues that hookups help women vet partners physically and emotionally. Today's females take a feminist... More »

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feminism • relationship • abstinence • premarital sex • opinion

Opinion

Obama: The Arrogance
of Hope

Senator's opinion of himself outstrips deeds: Krauthammer

Jul 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Barack Obama appeared on the scene, the nation asked, “Who is he?” Now the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer wants to know, “Who does he think he is?” Obama—who wants to speak at the hallowed ground of Germany's Brandenburg Gate—seems to have an awfully high... More »

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Barack Obama • opinion

OPINION

No More
Navel-Gazing;
Go After McCain

Obama must make the race be about GOP failures, not himself

Jul 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are two races for president this year, Michael Tomasky writes in the Guardian, “a race about Barack Obama and a race about what the GOP has done to the country.” And Obama would be well served to turn the focus to John McCain, whose recent gaffes have... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential politics • Election 2008 • opinion • political strategy

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